Mexico could get first female president inelection on 2 June | BBC News

Claudia Sheinbaum is the current front-runner inMexico's presidential election - which would make herthe country's first ever woman to take on the role.

With her closest rival, Xóchitl Gálvez, also a woman,and the only man in the presidential race a distantthird, Mexico is almost certainly set to break centuriesof male domination of the country's highest office.

In a nation with deeply embedded problems withmachismo and sexual violence against women andgirls, Sheinbaum says the fact that both leadingcandidates are women is a sign that Mexican societybis evolving.

On average, 11 women a day are murdered in Mexico.